Sentence examples for outright smile from inspiring English sources

Many would say it was a life lived with grace, often with at least congeniality if not an outright smile, and less often with a frown as he said in public what Nelson Mandela couldn't say while he was held on Robben Island.

When my brother privately showed me a picture he'd taken of Chris and Ada sitting in a Zodiac (Chris failing to maintain complete disgruntlement, Ada outright smiling), it reminded me of my happiness at having found them on the ship.

Throughout the evening, friends and family gathered around the cake, breaking into smiles and outright laughter as they gazed on its topper — a dollhouse-sized love seat, rendered in what has become a most memorable shade of beige.

And at Tully on Friday a good-natured and wildly varied program played the Baroque if not for outright laughs, at least for smiles.

His wife interrupted with a question: If Jesse Ventura can be governor of Minnesota "why can't Hulk Hogan be president?" There were smiles but no outright dismissal of the notion.

"You'll notice as we go along that we get a lot of smiles if not outright laughter," he tells me as he waves and greets nearly everyone he passes.

As a female emergency physician, I smiled -- no, laughed outright -- that this made your front page.

Emoticons and the insertion of a virtual smile should be considered the calling card of the outright nincompoop.

If the demise of the old Macombs Dam Park was full of sadness — if not outright bitterness — its rebirth atop a garage across the street gave cause to smile and remember and look to the future.

In recent advertising and marketing campaigns, the government here in "the land of smiles" has actively gone after categories of tourists that for reasons of political sensitivity or outright discrimination are shunned in some neighboring countries.

"It was a belter," Peter Moores says with a knowing smile as, in the autumn sunshine, he remembers the celebration last Thursday night after Lancashire won their first outright county cricket championship since 1934.